Michigan Added to States With Confirmed CWD in Deer

None of the dreaded disease has been found in Arkansas’s deer herd.

CWD causes the degeneration of the brain in members of the deer family; it has no vaccine or cure. The disease is always fatal and a positive diagnosis must be determined through laboratory testing. CWD is not known to affect humans.

Cory Gray, deer program coordinator for the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, said, “We have strict regulations concerning the importation of live cervids (members of the deer family) and certain parts of carcasses into Arkansas from other states, but our intent is to maintain a healthy, disease-free deer herd. We are getting a good deal of cooperation from hunters in our campaign to keep out CWD. Biologists and hunters have a mutual desire for a healthy, productive, sustainable deer herd in Arkansas.”

CWD has now been found in free-ranging and captive …read more

Source:: AmmoLand